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"gather" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often garner (6 letters).
Definitions
increase or develop
Word origin
From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).
Used in a sentence
“I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.”
“She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.”
“We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Collect”6 letters
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